In the continuing soap opera Hurricane Billy Howls Again, a new development. Despite William Friedkin's insistence that, as was the case with his controversial Blu-ray re-imagining of The French Connection,…
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Early yesterday afternoon I and my fellow Carroll Gardeners were indulging in a bit of wishful thinking, letting the warmth of the direct sunlight delude us into believing that Spring…
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I think this post should earn Jeff Wells the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seriously.
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...because I'm sleepy. It's an imperfect image—obtained with camera, not computer screen-grab—and I'm not gonna say where it's from, because it might be a fun guessing game. Although I've learned…
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Poor J. Carroll Naish in Dr. Renault's Secret, Harry Lachman, 1942. Look at that mug. I always loved the B-picture innovation of revealing the film's "secret" not though a flashback but…
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Lately I've been seeing a lot of virtual hand-wringing about how, particularly on the internet, writing about movies has devolved into writing about writing about movies. I am not unsympathetic…
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